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Git, TortoiseGit, Github and the rest

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:15:52 GMT

Christiaan takes a look at getting up and running with Git and related tools from the point of view of wanting to gain access to the source code to an open source project hosted on GitHub.

MSDN Ultimate Subscription giveaway +1

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:52:20 GMT

Microsoft was kind enough to give me 3 MSDN Ultimate Subscriptions. I gave two of these away already, I have one left for the readers of Lessthandot.com.

comments Programatically create a sharepoint calendar entry

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:53:01 GMT

We recently had a requirement to programatically create an entry in an existing Sharepoint calendar, so here is an example of how we went about doing this. I'll be using Visual Studio 2008 for this, but the process will be similar for any other versions you are using. First of all, you will need to add a reference to one of the Sharepoint web references, so right-click your project and select Add Web Reference. You'll then be presented with a screen that asks you for a URL for that web service, so go ahead and write it in the following format:

6 ways to import data into SQL Server

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:45:00 GMT

6 different ways are shown to import data from a file into SQL Server

Collection Of Puzzles For Programmers

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:16:03 GMT

A nice collection of puzzles. Some are harder than others so there is something for everyone. You can choose any language you want, you will see that there are solutions in C#, Ruby, Python, Visual Basic, SQL, JavaScript, C++ and other languages.

An Interview With Kevin Kline About SQL In A Nutshell Third Edition

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:16:03 GMT

An Interview With Kevin Kline About SQL In A Nutshell Third Edition. SQL In A Nutshell covers MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and SQL server

The Ten Most Asked SQL Server Questions And Their Answers

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:01:14 GMT

Then 10 most asked SQL Server Programming questions and their answer

SQL Server Precision And Scale Problems

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:31:04 GMT

Many people are confused about SQL Server's precision and scale. This is unfortunate because choosing the correct values for precision and scale is critically important when you perform math operations using the decimal/numeric data type

Troubleshooting blocking 101 on sql-server

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:31:02 GMT

How to find out which process is blickong in SQL-server 2005

An interview with Roy Osherove author of "The Art of Unit Testing"

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:46:02 GMT

A short interview with Roy Osherove, author of a new book "The Art of Unit Testing" and known blogger, who works on Typemock Isolator.

VB.Net: Rhino Mocks and the AAA syntax

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:12:31 GMT

About how to use the new AAA (Arrange, act, and Assert) syntax with VB.Net and the difference with the old syntax.

An interview with Louis Davidson author of pro sql server 2008

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:01:12 GMT

Pro SQL Server 2008 Relational Database Design and Implementation is one of those books that should be in the hands of every SQL Server developer. There are tons of SQL Server programming books around but none of them covers the fundamentals of a good SQL Server database, the design. If your design is 'broken' then it is a lot harder to fix it down the road, design is probably the number one reason people have all kinds of problems with their databases.

LINQ to SQL queries involving strings cause SQL Server procedure cache

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:01:03 GMT

Be careful when using LINQ. If an application is using LINQ to SQL and the queries involve the use of strings that can be highly variable in length, the SQL Server procedure cache will become bloated with one version of the query for every possible string length

Send Action Queries to Your Database in Batches

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:46:03 GMT

Coming from a database background, I should've known better. But, I didn't. Recently I found myself needing to write a GUI wrapper for a new Address Standardization component we got at work. This was purchased in order to clean addresses for a variety of data processing tasks we do on the way into the database, allowing us to completely automate these processes,

Only In A Database Can You Get 1000% + Improvement By Changing A Few L

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:01:04 GMT

Only In A Database Can You Get 1000% + Improvement By Changing A Few Lines Of Code

LTD Puzzle VIII - Converting between Roman and Arabic Numerals

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:46:09 GMT

The puzzle this week is simple. Write a program to convert to (and from) roman numerals. So your program should be able to take the input of 27 and return XXVII, and take MCMLXXXI and return 1981. And of course any other values....

nHibernate performance against stored procedures

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:01:15 GMT

A 5 part blogpost about the performance of a select statement done with ADO.Net using inline sql, and stored procedures (even some dynamic sql) and then nHibernate to get the same results. But this one has an alternate ending.

5 Books Every Developer Should Read

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:01:02 GMT

Which books should you read/buy when you are a programmer? I have listed 5 books that have helped me a lot. The books that I have chosen are not specific to any language although some of the books have examples in one language only

Extending the System.Drawing.Image clas to make a thumbnail

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:46:04 GMT

Extending the System.Drawing.Image clas to make a thumbnail easy way. Instead of using getThumbnail you just use Tothumbnail and a maximumsize, optional parameter is if you want to keep the aspect ratio.

LTD Puzzle 5 -Fibonacci Sequence

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:18:30 GMT

This weeks puzzle is a nice and simple one to ease all those with sore heads from the July 4th celebrations back into thinking code...

ASP.NET Hacks

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:46:08 GMT

At LessThanDot, we've decided to release a series of articles, tips and tricks which will be known as the "Hacks" series. The first instalment was the popular SQL Server Programming Hacks and this week sees the release of the ASP.NET Hacks. These hacks have been split up into the following categories: 1 Applications 2 Caching 3 Controls 4 Database 5 Dates 6 Debugging 7 Email 8 Encryption 9 Files 10 Images 11 Javascript 12 Objects and Classes 13 Pages 14 Sessions 15 Strings 16 Validation 17 Visual Studio 18 Web We've decided to release these in the wiki so that anyone can contribute to them, so feel free to add anything else that you find useful.

Danger in Design: Why bother with Architecture?

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:01:12 GMT

Creativity is a wonderful thing. It's also something different for each of us, which is why sometimes our perspectives on the world can produce conflicting ideas on what is the right way and the wrong way to do things. This is a very common facet of the IT world, in particular making computer software, solutions and services.

Puzzle - Ascii Art in Shortest Code

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:47:28 GMT

This week's puzzle is to draw a couple shapes using characters, in as little code as possible.

C# Sorting winforms controls using linq

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:16:09 GMT

C# Sorting winforms controls using LINQ

Puzzle - Regular Pentagon

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:28:19 GMT

This week's puzzle at LessThanDot is entitled "Regular Pentagon".